Posts tagged with ‘education’

This week, the High Court ruled that a father didn’t have to pay a fine for taking his daughter out of school for a holiday. He won due to a technicality. The law as it stands says children must attend school “regularly”. The man argued that taking his daughter out of school for a week’s […]

I came across a site, Learn History, which offers revision materials for GCSE History exams. As part of its “Crime, punishment and protest” section, it has a gallery showing aerial photos of prisons in England and Wales. This is the photo which they claim is of Leicester prison: As anyone from Leicester will realise, the […]

The most recent twist in the “cash for honours” saga currently afflicting the UK government has seen the the arrest of Des Smith, the man responsible for raising money for the City Academies scheme. Some people have asked why donors to the Labour party, or to the Academies, are so keen to buy themselves a […]

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Sad to head of the loss of Jóhann Jóhannsson today. I first came across him in 2006 when he released "IBM 1401, A User's Manual" featuring a computer's sounds recorded by his father in 1971. bit.ly/2Em3Y36~1 month agoReplyRetweetFavourite